Macbethian

Definitions

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adj. Of or pertaining to William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (circa 1603-1607) about a regicide and the supernatural.

Etymologies

Macbeth +‎ -ian (Wiktionary)

Examples

What a tired old transparant device - "I can't think why this would happen, so I'll introduce a really obvious Macbethian prophecy that hasn't been foreshadowed at all, using unnecessary made-up words not used before, that will make the characters act in the necessary way".

As recently as one week ago, Hillary was still being widely depicted as a Lady Macbethian figure, a kind of she-demon who was still potentially scheming to take the race to the convention, thus destroying the Democratic Party in service of her insatiable ambition.

Even if you soundly reject Hillary's arguments as pure Lady-Macbethian cynicism, and even if you think they'll fail, which they almost certainly will, the fact remains that it is within her rights under party rules to make them to super-delegates, and super-delegates are free to listen to them if they wish.

Obama's case that he's the high-road politician beset upon by Hillary's Lady-Macbethian efforts to tear him down would obviously be tougher to make if the Obama camp starts seriously invoking Whitewater, cattle futures, and other ghosts and goblins from the 1990s that continue to haunt the wingnut imagination.

Even Mrs. Evringham had buried the Macbethian dagger, and wore the meek and patient air of one misunderstood; but nothing would have amazed the child so much as to be told that she had had anything to do with this metamorphosis.

In the mean time, I wish my Macbethian wizardess would tell me "that Cowslip Dale should come to Strawberry Hill;" which by the etiquette of oracles, you know, would certainly happen, because so improbable.